Insecurity: Yoruba Socio-political group urge FG not to dismiss US report indicting security agents

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, said the US commission’s claim indicting security agents and politicians should not be dismissed, adding that it was not surprised by its findings.

Afenifere’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Jare Ajayi, said: “This is because of the strong belief that the nature of terrorism bedeviling Nigeria would not be festering for this long without complicity from some powerful quarters.”

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Wondering how difficult it would be for a conflagration to be active over a stream without the handiwork of some forces, Ajayi stated that government and patriotic security agencies in Nigeria seem very determined to end banditry in the country.

“With the vows by the President and top security officers, one has the feeling that the government is determined to end terrorism in Nigeria. When President Bola Tinubu appointed General Christopher Musa, (retd), as Minister of Defence, we had a lot of hope that within months, a total stop would be put to terrorism and banditry in the country.

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“Unfortunately, there seems to be a spike, rather than reduction. The reason for this could be rooted in sabotage and complicity from within and from without. This tends to buttress the alarm raised by the US Commission,” he said.

Ajayi stated that Afenifere had for about a year been calling the attention of those concerned to these areas, the need for security agencies to look inward.

The search could involve some powerful politicians, as insinuated by the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio.

While the US Commission’s assertion may be uncomfortable, he said: “It is very important not to dismiss it but to use it a beacon with which to comb all areas.”

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